B is for Birds

• Story and Bird search
1. We read Ruby’s Birds by Mya Thompson
2. Then we went on a walk/hike to listen and watch for birds.
• I wish I would have made them keep track of how many birds we saw and how many we heard. That would have been good tally practice!

• Feather Counting
1. With laminated birds, have your preschooler tell you the number that is on it and add that many feathers.
   *(I can’t find the original of these, and can’t even remember if I made them or if I got them from someone else!) 

• Book and Rhyming
1. We read Wings by Cheryl B. Klein, it is a book written only with words that rhyme with “wings” 
2. Get some letters out and practice sounding out and rhyming “-ings” words.

• Playdoh egg counting
1. Use this bird’s nest playdoh mat
2. Make playdoh “eggs” (roll playdoh in a ball)
3. Write or put a number in the square on the bottom right of the mat (printed from above), and have your preschooler count out that many eggs to put in the nest.

***Find a lot more Birds preschool activities here or on our instagram account (saved in our highlights under “Bb”)